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"If traffic increases at the present rate, it will just have doubled itself in ten years' time, and congestion will be far worse..."
Robert Reid makes a Second Enquiry into some of Britain's social problems in 1958. In this edition, he looks at the problem of Britain's roads, what measures are being taken to ease traffic congestion, and what progress has been made on Britain's motorway system.
Clip taken from Second Enquiry originally broadcast on BBC Television, 21 November, 1951.
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"If traffic increases at the present rate, it will just have doubled itself in ten years' time, and congestion will be far worse..."
Robert Reid makes a Second Enquiry into some of Britain's social problems in 1958. In this edition, he looks at the problem of Britain's roads, what measures are being taken to ease traffic congestion, and what progress has been made on Britain's motorway system.
Clip taken from Second Enquiry originally broadcast on BBC Television, 21 November, 1951.
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